MySQL 5.6 is now generally available. Read the press release.

Chock-full of new enhancements and features around performance, scalability and availability, MySQL 5.6 is the best MySQL release ever. Read Rob Young's blog article on the key enhancements in MySQL 5.6.

This is open source goodness all around.

Congratulations to the MySQL Engineering team on delivering a stellar product release yet again for the MySQL community and users!

MySQL Innovation Day (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/innovation-day/) held on June 5, 2012 was a great event for the MySQL engineers, users and customers to gather, share and network. I was able to get a few minutes with Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, to ask him some questions. Here are the highlights of my interview with Tomas.

Monica: This was the first MySQL Innovation Day, correct?  Why now, what was the strategy behind hosting this kind of event?

Tomas: In the last year, we have rolled out an incredible number of MySQL events worldwide – some targeted at developers that are new to MySQL and others for the MySQL savvy. At the MySQL Innovation Day, our first event of this kind,, we had a number of

MySQL was voted as the winner in the Database Management category in 2011 Impact Awards!

Selected by the subscribers of php|architect magazine, the winners represent the projects that have had the most impact on the day-to-day lives of PHP developers.

Thank you, PHP developers!

Check out the latest edition of the MySQL Newsletter. It is chalk chock full of great information for MySQL developers and users. Here are some examples of what is included in the current edition:

• DevZone Article: MySQL 5.5 Pluggable Authentication API - Interview with Georgi "Joro" Kodinov
• White Paper: What's New in MySQL 5.5
• White Paper: MySQL Replication - Enhancing Scalability and Availability with MySQL 5.5
• Planet MySQL Blog Posts

Read the entire newsletter.